Vacation Post #2 - Cedar Point!

Boy, did we have a blast at Cedar Point! We had reservations and got to stay in their Campers Village! It was so cool to be able to walk to everything!! The beach, the park, the water park! We got to come back to the RV if we needed a break....or to come back and make lunch. I highly recommend it!! And the best perk of all was that everyone staying on park property got to enter the park an hour earlier than the public and each day they would open a few special rides just for us!
So what's the first thing we do??? Take Heather on her first roller coaster of course! The Iron Dragon! It's one of those types of coasters where you sit in the little cars under the track! We actually made her ride it once both days, and on the second day I had her ride it in the front seat with me!! I told her to pretend that we were riding on Cassie's back (from Dragontales) LOL!!! She did great and didn't complain too much. So we purchased her a tee shirt to commemorate the event!

We didn't get to ride too many of the big rollercoasters because Heather was just an inch too short. But the park did have this great program where one adult waits in line and gets to ride the ride, then when they get off that parent gives the workers a card and the second parent gets to go up the exit ramp and ride the next round. We did that a few times.

Heather's two favorite rides were the kiddie bumber cars and the mini-gemini rollercoaster! Daddy said that the little rollercoaster banged him up worse than any of the BIG ones that he got to ride! That's them in the front seat...daddy in the yellow.

I've got a ton more pictures, but I think you get the gist of the day! She had tons of fun in the children's areas riding all those silly little rides, but she had a BLAST!

Now, the Soak City is a different story! Can you say FUN for my little fishy!! Even though she was still to small to ride the big slides, they did have a ton for the little ones to do including this little slide into a kiddie pool! I didn't get many picures here since I was too wet and having too much fun, but you can check out the link! Be sure to look at the Splash Zone! It was super cool!!!! I even ran through it a few times, LOL!! The waterpark did have one of those HUGE family innertube slides that is like 7 stories high! Well, that was H's favorite! And we rode it 7 TIMES!!! I can't believe I climed that many stairs! LOL!!

OK, enough for now! Have a great day everyone!! Hope you enjoyed the pictures!

Vacation Post #1....

...Adventures with a 30 year old RV...



So we left bright and early on Saturday morning (July 26).... really early!!! 5:30AM! Yikes! Little did I know that this would be the theme for most of our driving trip. Seems the old girl, now affectionately kown as "The Brick", really likes the cool early mornings to drive.



The sun comes up and at about 100 miles from home the power steering belt BREAKS!! So, my super-man of a husband (BTW, he is also a mechanic) decides to drive The Brick without power steering until we find a parts store. Have I mentioned yet that we are taking the L-O-N-G way to PA to avoid going over big mountain passes? At this point, we are actually heading north to Wyoming! We find a parts store in Craig, Colorado....purchase the new belt we need....but get back on the road. Super-man decides that he will change the belt when we stop for the night.



So into Wyoming we go....Ever been there?? Well....you're not missing anything! There is NOTHING there but wind! Seriously! Even driving through the capital, Cheyenne, is like a little spot. Blink and you miss it! But it is pretty....in it's own way.

Then it is onto Nebraska. I personally think Nebraska smells like cows, LOL! It's a BIG state to cross, but by this time it is time to find a stop for the night. Since it was a Saturday, we ended up having to stop at three different campgrounds to find one with an opening! So we did get a little further than planned. And the one we did find had train tracks right next to it. Luckily we were all tired enough to sleep through most of them!

Sunday morning it is up at dawn and on the road again. Today we need to cross the entire state of Nebraska! Like I said before, there is not much here but farmland, so I don't have much to comment on! OH! And the belt didn't fit, so Super-man is still driving without power steering!

We do manage to cross Nebraska and end up stopping for the night just over the boarder in Missouri. A nice little KOA with a toad infestation!! Heather was FASTENATED with all the toads hopping around. And it was BAD!! You really had to watch where you walked or you may step on one!

And by this time the humidity is KILLING me!! We live in a very hot and dry climate, so the hot and humidity was driving me nuts! Not to mention that the RV does not have A/C when on the road. So every night when we stopped my first priority was always to get the A/C turned on!

Monday we decide to take it a little easier. We drove across Missouri and Illinois and ended up stopping just west of Indianapolis. Again, by strongest memory is the HUMIDITY! By this time my skin is breaking out like crazy! I feel as if I am 14 again! ICK!! It's not even worth it to try and put on make-up because it melts right off!

Tuesday is another easy day of driving. Across Indiana and Ohio to our first destination of Cedar Point!! WHoo hoooo!! We get set up at the park campground, which is in walking distance to both parks and Lake Erie. That first night we walked along the lake and swam in the campground pool. These pictures are from this area. I'll admit, I was a bad blogger and didn't take pictures of everything. I just didn't have the urge to lug a camera around with me all the time. OH!! And I think we got the power steering belt fixed somewhere in Indiana! LOL!

Tomorrow I will blog more about our adventures at Cedar Point!

VACATION!

Well, it is time for a much needed family vacation at the Cirka home. We will be leaving early in the morning for a long drive across the country. Our final destination will be Pittsburgh, PA on August 1st to visit both sides of our family! I can't wait to see everyone! We did just see Grandama and Pap Cirka in May, but we haven't seen Grandma Chalupiak since November! And aunt Linda and the cousins since March 2007!!!! I can't wait to see how much they've grown!

We will be making a pit stop in Ohio and spending three nights at Campers Villiage at Cedar Point. We plan on spending one day at Cear Point Amusement Park and one day at Soak City! I can't wait to see Heather's face when she sees all the rides and fun she is going to have! Too bad she is just an inch shy of riding all the BIG rides!

And yes, we will be taking our old 1978 MotorHome, I have an "are we there yet?" bag of goodies to be given each time we hear those aweful words, and lots of food and movies! Oh yeah.....and my box of yarn! LOL!! I hope I brought enough! Well, maybe I shouldn't "bring enough" and have to keep my eye out for yarn stores?? Hmmmmm????

I'll post more upon my return!